The cancer gene we all have - Michael Windelspecht

Within every cell in our body, two copies of a tumor suppressor gene called BRCA1 are tasked with regulating the speed at which cells divide. Michael Windelspecht explains how these genes can sometimes mutate, making those cells less specialized and more likely to develop into cancer.

Lesson by Michael Windelspecht, animation by Zedem Media.

[ShawnRavenfire]

I read an article years ago that said that the first multicellular organism on earth were almost identical to cancer cells, and that modern cells turning into cancer may be caused by a gene going missing or inactive, causing them to revert to an earlier evolutionary state.

[xhzozdl]

WOW, actually I'm korean, and I saw this video through korean version. I think the translation of this is veryveryvery wonderful. Maybe translator is amazing person. I will give him a big hand.

[grigorshah]

Actually brca1 has much less effect in cell cycle control/reparation/cancer suppression than p53, cyclin dependent kinase genes such as CDK1-3, CDKL5 or p21 etc. But brca1 was selected as a sample to demonstrate how the system actually works...though the video is for general public and mentions not even 5% of the processes which take place in cells both on genetic and cellular levels.

[anniezhao]

WAS I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT MY SCREEN WAS DIRTY?

[Junglist]

thank your lucky stars every morning waking up with no cancer.

[Euronius]

Everybody who's ever checked their symptoms online, has feared one time or another that he might have cancer. I guess those medical sites were right. We all might have cancer.

[MagicOfDark]

I like to think of it like computer networking. The sum check is used for error detection when transferring data, there is a low chance of it not catching an error but there are a few cases where the error won't be caught and the file being transferred becomes corrupted like it got cancer when copying itself from the host computer.

[yomnamohamed]

Both my mum and brother died from cancer

[HamzaElMouaffek]

I had an exam to day of biology molecular/Cytogenetic, and there was 2 question about that.
Gatekeeprs (p53), and caretakers.

[Smokey]

I thought this was going to be more difficult to understand, it turned out to be pretty easy.

[thedogdarky]

Thanks TED-Ed, I really could use that info, and apparently I´m smarter than 3 minutes ago :D

[theohendricks]

wow! What a sweet video! Keep it up ted

[luci]

wait question vsauce just made a video on

[vigneshkumar]

awesome video and channel and teaching was very nice

[theTdawgYo]

How does crashing turn a car into a monster truck and how exactly is BRCA1 involved in regulating the progression through the cell cycle? But mainly how the monster truck got there

[tehzarathustra]

well, that was kind of depressing, yet reasonably informative
thanks

[HoaVu-kpul]

Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

[Lucuskane]

This is a very complicated topic to cover in 3mins, BRAVO! ted-ed...conceptualize! 

[FalconFastest]

Great vid and all but... why is every man in the vid in his underwear??

[TritonLifeCsoport]

We find it interesting and useful, therefore we have translated it to Hungarian language.

I would like to inquire whether it is possible to add the text file to the video?
If so, I would like to send you the text file in order to attach it to the video.

Thank you in advance for your reply!